Vox

by Christina Dalcher

We’re on a slippery slide to prehistory, girls. Think about it. Think about where you’ll be—where your daughters will be—when the courts turn back the clock. Think about words like ‘spousal permission’ and ‘paternal consent.’ Think about waking up one morning and finding you don’t have a voice in anything.”

Think about what you need to do to stay free. Well, doing more than fuck all might have been a good place to start.

you can’t protest what you don’t see coming.

once a plan is in place, everything can happen overnight.

You can take a lot away from a person—money, job, intellectual stimulation, whatever. You can take her words, even, without changing the essence of her. Take away camaraderie, though, and we’re talking about something different.

I was a god who could bring back lost voices. Was.